Savvy Searcher -- Drug Information

MDConsult provides drug information by Gold Standard and covers brand name and generic drugs, investigational medications, neutraceuticals, and nutritional products. FDA Approvals and Safety Notices are added when announced. Pharmacotherapeutic information includes indications, contraindications, and adverse reactions.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) is a database index of the world's pharmacy literature published since 1970. Coverage includes related health, medical, cosmetic journals, state pharmacy journals, and abstracts of presentations at major pharmacy meetings. Indexes more than 10,000 references to alternative and herbal medicines.

Lexi-COMP provides comprehensive drug monographs with images and reference links to PubMed and the AHFS drug information "Red Book" entry on a drug. Other features include clinical dosage calculations, and a drug ID tool used to identify a drug based on imprint, dosage form, shape or color.

Natural Medicines provides monographs on over 1,000 herbal and non-herbal natural medicines. Contains information about the mechanism of action, interactions, adverse reactions, and dosage, and each drug is rated for safety and effectiveness.

MEDLINE is indexed with drug related MeSH terms, and drug related subheadings. Search MEDLINE using a drug's generic name, not the brand name.

Other useful databases include TOXNET for information about toxicology, hazardous chemicals, household products, etc. and the website of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research where you can search the online Orange Book of approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence.

Himmelfarb library's E-text collection includes Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, a pharmacology textbook with information on how drugs act on the bodies systems and functions, therapy and chemotherapy, hormones, vitamins, toxicology, and other general principals.

Access our databases, and e-texts from the hospital, MFA, and anywhere on-campus with no login, using the e-databases and e-texts links on the Himmelfarb Library website. Most of these resources are also available from the hospital.

Print editions of the following books are on the reference shelves on the first floor of the library: Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals; Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference; US National Formulary; US Pharmacopeial Dispensing Information; USP Dictionary of USAN and International Drug Names; PDR Guide to Drug Interactions, Side Effects, and Indications.